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Quotes by Historian
"My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right."
68
"The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome."
68
"It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly."
67
"The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government."
67
"Without drive you will never get anywhere in life."
67
"The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies."
67
"America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution."
66
"The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene."
66
"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."
66
"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."
66
"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos."
66
"The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense."
65
"Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine."
Mind,
65
"Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty."
65
"Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users."
65
"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
65
"Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse."
64
"Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind."
64
"The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly."
63
"Nothing is so useless as a general maxim."
63
"A master of improvised speech and improvised policies."
63
"The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward."
63
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